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i Waok March THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 42 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 10,1960 VOLUME XI Safes Robbed in Kinston Last Week Le.oir County officers were plagued by another series of safe ma tilings over the past week. Four were beaten open last Thursday night. Two of these were in the offices of E. L. Scott on West Vernon Avenue, another in the office of Scott’s next-door neighbor, the Pepsi-Cola Bottling plan: ar.d the fourth -was on Bast Bright Street in the-office of the Kinston Housing Authority. Biggest haul of the night was $514 from the Hous ing Authority safe, which is pictured with this article. Before getting to the safe the thieves had to tear open the large vault door in which the safe was located. At Scott’s establishment a total of $205 was taken. A‘ the Pep:i-Cola plant all the thieves got was ex ercise. Damage wtas fixed in the hundreds of dollars at each establishment and perhaps in the thousands at the Housing Authority due to the destruction of ■the vault door and its frame. Hoyt Minges, chief bottle washer at the Pepsi plant, has issued a statement to the general effect that no money is kept at the plant office overnight, and he’d appreciate thieves detouring around his place and tearing up bis equipment. This was its seco'd assault in two weeks. , The thieves were only interested in money, leaving checks at the Housing Authority neatly stacked on top the badly battered safe shown here. Ales Hit Clot, tut Responding to Aid Sheriff Brown Tates -was hos pitalized Tuesday morning from a blood clot in a bloodvessel lead ing to the brain, but cm Thursday he was reported to be responding extremely well to treatment and it was hoped that he wotfld have a complete reoovery. Yates first complained of feeling badly Monday afternoon and Health i Department Nurse Alma Vassey found his blood pressure to be up and advised him to see a doctor, which he delayed until Tuesday when hlis conditioned had wor sened. The Wood dot slowed Mood to certain areas of the brain, causing a temporary paralysis. On Tbnrs day it was reported that feeling Wtas. returning to those parts of fiis body that had been partially paralyzed. t Medication to dissolve the blood dot is apparently succeeding and did Thursday attendants were op timistically feeling that Yates’ re covery would be fast and com plete. Fountain Files for Reelection in Second Today 2nd District Representa tive Lh Hi Fountain filed for re election subject to nominatiofl in the May 28th primary. , In filing for his Sth term Feud tain said, “I appreciate the op portunity the people of the second district have given me to serve jhem in the Congress of the United States. I sincerely hope my record will merit their continued confi dence and support.” fv (Fountain is a member of the Veterans and Dependents are Urged to be Fully Informed On Changes in Pension Policy In August 1959 Congress passed a new pension law for veterans and veterans’ widows and children which will became effective July 1, 1960. One of the provisions of the new law is that veterans, widows and children -who are now receiving pension have the right to remain under the present pension law or e.ect to come under the new law. The Veterans Administration will, in the near future, mail to present recipients of pension the necessary form to elect benefits under the new law if they so desire. To elect to receive benefits under the new law can be to a person’s disadvantage unless he or she thoroughly understands the provi sions of both laws. Before signing any form and re turning it to the Veterans Admin istration, the veteran, widow, <p fiduciary for a child should consult his local Service G£ficer to insure that no mistake will be made. Under the neiw laiw certain World War I widows whose claims have ben disallowed because of income, and certain World War U and Ko rean widows and children whose Claims have been disallowed for other reasons, may be eligible for benefits. If is suggested that any widow or custodian of a child who is interested consult with the local Service Officer. The Veterans’ Service Officer in Kinston is R. B. Edmundson, Dis 'liot Officer of the North Carolina Veterans Commission, whose of fice Is located in Room 215, Pear son Building. This office is open Monday through Friday. STUMPHOLE TROUBLE Eugene Burney of Trenton route two and Jessie Mae Price of 1121 Sasser Street Were indicted Satur day by ABC Gfipers, who accused negro coupte of bavin^amaU Harry Davis New ‘Exchanger’ Editor Harry E. Davis, former Infor mation Co-ordinator for the Penn slyfvama Power and Light Company of A1 entown, Pa., joined the Du Pont Company at the Kinston plant February 29. He will succeed Neil Gabbert as publications editor in the plant’s personnel section. Gabbert will be transferred to the public relations department’s product information service at Wilmington, Del. on March 14. 1 A native of dairton, Pa., Davis received his B.A. degree in journal ism from Penn Slate University in 1957. He served for about two years as a reporter and feature writer for Call-Chronicle News papers, Inc., of Allentown, Pa. He has been with the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company for the past two years. “ Davis and the former Sandra"1 Ann Stocker of Allentown were married in November, 1957. They a 15-month-oI«d daughter, . The Davis family 906 Edwards Avenue Onslow Countian Held for Manslaughter in Unusual Death Over Past Weekend Alton Kenmit Hunter of Beula ville route two Monday night was ordered held under $2,000 bond 'pending trial at the March 21 term of Lenoir County Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter. Bond wa s set by Magistrate W. J. Thomas, following a preliminary hearing. The hearing revealed a most, un usual set of circumstances which led to the charge against Hunter. Saturday afternoon Highway Pa trolman Wesley Parrish stopped a car driven by 'Cecil Carroll Me ready in which four other men were riding. Parrish saw a small quantity of stumiphole whisky and assumed that oae of the five men in the car was “passed out”. All were drinking. On arriving at the Kinston police station it was found that James ■Lanier, the man Parrish thought to be passed out, was truly passed out; he was in fact dead. Other .passengers in the car included Douglas and Hayes Ervin Bryan. All in the car were from Beula ville route two. An autopsy Sunday revealed that Lanier had died from a broken neck. Questioning of the passengers re vealed that Lanier had gotten mad, or disatisfied about something and told his companions he was going to get out and walk home. Hunter got out to try to persuade Lanier to get back in the car and ^in argument developed into a brief hit of fisticuffs; in which Hunter said he struck Lamer twice. • None of the passengers in the car knew that Lanier had suffered the injury from which he died until they arrived at the police station. Their stories were rather garbled and Magistrate Thomas said it was pretty obvious that nothing more than a manslaughter charge could toe substantiated on the basis of evidence tendered before him Mon day night. SATURDAY WRECK Cars driven by Eddie Frank Johnson of Dover and George Douglas Emory of 29-F Simon Bright Homes tangled Saturday at the corner of Queen and Gordon, and Emory was charged with run ning a red light. ..DRIVING ACCUSATIONS Persons accused of drunken driving over the weekend included Cpl. Peter Mamryzucki of Camp Lejeune, Willie Lee Cannon of Bridgeton and Harley Lee Williams of Richlands route two. Maysville Rotarians Consider Conference The Mayville Rotary met last Tuesday evening at the community building with Pres. Harry Bryant presiding. Disxiict Governor Tom Foscue •presented the program on the up coming D strict Conference. At the business session the club voted to purchase plaques bearing the Rotary emblem to be present ed to each student being honored a', the future scholarship banquet. Maysville Firemen Discuss Purchase More Equipment Thirty five members of the Maysville Fire Department met Monday evening. Joe Monette pre sided in the absence of president Rudolph, Pelletier. During the business portion, dis cussion was held on purchasing another truck and installing two more a arm systems: Jaimes E. Taylor in Caribbean Operation CARIB-BEAN — James E. Tay lor, boatswain’s mate third class, USN, son of Mr. anil Mrs. James R. Taylor of Route 1, Box 306, Trenton, N. C., sewing aboard the destroyer USS Davis, took part in operation “Skyhook”, a balloon launching and recovery project conducted in the Caribbean during the later part of January. 'Purpose of the operation, which utilized the world’s largest bal loons, was to measure cosmic ray activity at altitudes up to 120,000 feet. Jones Central Grad Now Rocket Launcher PORT BLISS, TEX. — Army PiFC Albert L. Coombs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Coombs, Route 2, Dover, recently participated with other personnel from the 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion in the firing of the Army’s Redstone missile at White Sands Missile Range, N. M. Coombs is regularly assigned as a rocket launcher crewman in the battalion’s Battery B in Germany. He entered the Army in January 1959 and received basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S. C. The 21 year-old soldier is a 1956 graduate of Jones Central High School. Wild Midnight Chase Sends LaGrange Negro to Prison A wild chase that began in Kin ston on Chestnut Street shortly be fore 3 a, n. Sunday has sent 19 year-old Ralph Sutton of La Orange to prison for 12 months. Captain Glasco Evans and Officer Raymond Eubanlcs attempted to stop Sutton for a routine check but stopping him required some “do ing”. Sutton, driving Ms brother James Leroy Sutton’s car aped away and the chase was on. Evans called for help over the radio. Out Tower Hill Road to NO 55 and then eastwardly at speeds of t*p to 95 miles an hour. PpKcemen i^jgntmy Taylor and Phil Staitb in ajwiher car Joined the chase. S®Ron swerved Ms car from side to side, preventing either of the | race continued to Fort Barnwell, I with the officers unable to bring Sutton to a halt. Ait Fort Barnwell Sutton swerved to the right on the Dover Road and along this more narrow road the race kept on. Nearly to Dover, Sut ton swerved as if to turn into a side road, but skidded out side ways and nearly back on the main road. When his car came to a side ways halt it was rammed by {he .police car driven by. Captain* Evans. Sutton and Julius Bass, also of La Grange, a passenger in the Sutton car tried to jump and run but were immediately surrounded by the four officers. Tuesday morning after listening f to the officers toll of the wild ride Recorder • Emmett Wooten, sen tenced Sutton to 12 months to-a youthful offender camp.
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